Ep322 - Rachel Shukert, Screenwriter The Baby-Sitters Club, The Handmaid’s Tale, GLOW, & Supergirl

Rachel Shukert grew up in the Omaha theater scene, where she absorbed plays by Tennessee Williams as an actress, before landing at NYU, where she began to find her voice as a writer. As a writer, she’s known for working on Supergirl, GLOW, Cursed, and Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club, where she’s also been producing since 2019. In the 2020 series, the description reads, “Based on the book series of the same name focusing on a group of young girls who start their own babysitting service.” In this interview, Rachel talks about writing period pieces from the writer and producer POV, how screenwriting is like a piece of string, how her spec script Wendy Darling got her noticed, and why “everything is possible” and “nothing is possible” as a screenwriter. If it’s your first time listening, make sure to subscribe and visit my new website for information on the YouTube channel, the blog, this podcast, and my new book ‘Ink by the Barrel’ which takes advice from these 200+ interviews at the link below… Follow us on Instagram: @creativeprinciples If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It only takes about 60-seconds and it really helps convince some of the hard-to-get guests to sit down and have a chat (simply scroll to the bottom on your iTunes Podcast app and click “Write Review"). Enjoy the show!